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Hi all,
have you an autistic baby? Could you please tell me about your experience? My daughter is 2 years old (16/Dec/2014) and she does n't speak yet. Just some simple words like mama papa water baby milk ... I have an appointment with speech therapy for next month. I'm really worry about her she also say's wrong words. For example ta(cat),pen(ten),ni(nine),na(now) epi(nappy). She can n't say verb and sentence...even 2 simple words with together

About halfway down they go through lists of behaviour that would be common in kids with Autism.

Lots of kids have an isolated speech delay without Autism - so take a big breath! It may also be worthwhile having your child's hearing checked --- if they can't hear words correctly, it's hard to pronounce them ;)

It's very likely that she just has a speech delay. Autism wouldn't be my first thought when it's only her speech that you're concerned about. Do the speech therapy and I'm sure things will improve, I have a friend whose son was close to 2.5 and still hadn't said mama. He had a speech delay and got some support. Now he's a perfectly normal 5 year old and his speech is comparable to his peers. I am also a kindergarten teacher and so many of the students in my classes each year benefit from speech and language support. It's super common. It's awesome that you recognized it and are getting help early because they make so much progress when they're young. Lots of parents wait a long time before getting help and then it can take longer to see progress.
Try not to worry, enjoy your daughter, take advice from the experts! Good luck!!

Agreed with pp. I am also a kindergarten teacher for 12 years.
So glad you are getting help early and us willing to help your child!!
One day at a time. Listen to the experts who will work with you. Lots of love to both of you!!

My son just turned two and we are doing speech therapy since he's delayed as well.
I agree about the audiology test just to make sure hearing isn't the issue. The Dr didn't seem too concerned at our last appt because he is social and uses toys in the appropriate way, i.e. Toy phones and cars roll.
We attended a workshop and they told us about little things to help him, like getting down on their level, simplifying your own words, keeping toys in jars they can't open so they need to communicate for help and then you take one out and take turns playing so they repeat what you say etc. I can look for the pamphlet if you want me to send it to you
Good luck mama!!

We started with a speech therapist about 5 months ago and have seen some improvement. They do multiple assessments and look at 'communication skills' which is how your LO can communicate without words. They also look at pretend play and how social your lo
is. Typical late talkers (like my lo and I'd guess yours too) only lack in expressive speech. We got help early as I work with speech therapist so I was knew we were behind months ago. We are still behind as now we are suspecting a motor speech delay but only time will tell. Maybe she's just being stubborn!

Check out: The Hanen Centre or Talk to Me (if your in Ontario) lots of information and some helpful hints!

I have a late talker to. If it's just speech, I agree with everyone else: get a hearing test and don't worry so much!
My oldest will be 4 this week. At 18 months (when they get a public health assessment here in NB), she wasn't speaking 10 words + mama and dada. (She had about 5 words plus dada and about a dozen animal sounds but they said they didn't count) She had hearing tested and started speech at 2y1m. 10 weeks later she had added Mama and Apple to her vocabulary and they wanted her tested for busyness. The peditrician we got into (at about 2y7m) laughed and said all 2 year olds are busy and found us a more experienced speech pathologist. That started at about 2y9m. She's been going for 10 weeks on and 10 weeks off since. She really started talking just before her 3rd birthday, now we're working on pronunciation.
i find they are quick to try to diagnose, though, so beware. The speech pathologists have sent her for testing for busyness, autism and want to for speech apraxia (but said it can't be diagnosed until
school age) but we've seen several peditricians because of the testing and they all say there is no thing wrong, she very bright and stubborn!

I would second the earlier opinions. Maybe your LO jUst has speech delay. My mom says that my sister didn't talk much till she was 3. And then the words just started running out. She is now more outspoken than me.

Thank you all. I'm sorry about my English, I know my English is n't well I live in Australia and every thing is slow here. I'm on a waiting list for a long time to speech therapy and it made me more worry. Because I'm not sure what is her problem. Has she a important problem or just speech delay? I'm sure her hearing has no problem. But when I'm calling her she does not answer me and does not look at me. When she hear's a voice from fare away she has reaction immediately. She love's tablet more than me, and she know's to sec of her cartoons but can n't repeat them just some word's and some time's with body language the same of the characters her cartoons. For example clap her hands, laugh,dance... she is going to the childcare recently and she hate's there and cry's a lot. She can say milk but when she need's to the milk does not say it and just start's to crying. It mean's I want my milk ! When she see's bottle milk she say's milk ! When she need's to me she does not call me and just crying but when she does not need to me say's mama or when she is watching photo of me say's mama! Anyway I do not know what is the matter? I just know I'm unwell from this situation ☹️

In reply to Shayli1

30/12/16

Thank you all. I'm sorry about my English, I know my English is n't well I live in Australia and every thing is slow here. I'm on a waiting list for a long time to speech therapy and it made me more worry. Because I'm not sure what is her problem. Has she a important problem or just speech delay? I'm sure her hearing has no problem. But when I'm calling her she does not answer me and does not look at me. When she hear's a voice from fare away she has reaction immediately. She love's tablet more than me, and she know's to sec of her cartoons but can n't repeat them just some word's and some time's with body language the same of the characters her cartoons. For example clap her hands, laugh,dance... she is going to the childcare recently and she hate's there and cry's a lot. She can say milk but when she need's to the milk does not say it and just start's to crying. It mean's I want my milk ! When she see's bottle milk she say's milk ! When she need's to me she does not call me and just crying but when she does not need to me say's mama or when she is watching photo of me say's mama! Anyway I do not know what is the matter? I just know I'm unwell from this situation ☹️

I really think she sounds within the range of totally normal. I don't think there IS a problem.

Also, you say your English isn't good--is she learning two languages at once? That can make it a bit more complicated for her to sort out her language at first. It's a great thing for kids to have two languages, but right at first it makes it a bit more muddled for them.

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